January 24, 2015 life is surprising sometimes

It is surprising how life takes it's twists and turns sometimes.
I can't believe it's been half a year since I last blogged. At that point, I posted about a job interview that didn't pan out for me. Life has taken some interesting turns since then with respect to work.
At the beginning of the school year I was asked to come meet with my principal. He told me, that because of my shoulder injury and inability to do my current position, they didn't have a place for me. I needed to go discuss this with the Superintendent and Special Ed director. When I did, it didn't look promising. After some serious fretting and their discussion, they finally placed me at the HS with a boy in a wheelchair. He needed little assistance beyond me being his hands. The first week of school a women at the Middle School quit her job. Since my current position appeared a temporary fix, I decided to apply for this other job. Two weeks later they moved me to this new position. There I was assigned to work with two boys all the time. One who was autistic, and the other Undiagnosed ADD. Along with them, I had a boy who needed reading assistance 2x week and later another who needed math assistance 2x week. It was a good placement. The only real drawback was that the undiagnosed ADD boy talked non-stop, which drove me nuts.  I received an email from the SPED director asking if anyone had Sign Language skills. I hesitated to respond, not knowing what I might be getting myself into, but responded anyway. Early December, she cornered me and said she wanted to offer me a position working with an hearing-impaired girl. I thought to myself, "Finally I have something the district needs!" That's pretty rare! After discussing it with Paul, I agreed to accept the position. I wouldn't start until after the holiday break though.